CONTENTS. The Roman Catacombs 1 Symbols of the Holy Eucharist in the Roman Catacombs 4 Martyrdom of St. Sixtus II 9 Legend of St. Tabcissus 11 The Altar of the Early Church 11 Communion of the Early Christians 14 The Saints of the Desert 18 St. Ionatius, Bishop of Antiogh, Martyr, A.D. 107 20 St. Eudoxia, Martyr, A.D. 147 21 Facts related by St. Cyprian, B.M., A.D. 257 22 St. Cornelius and Serapion, A.D. 264 22 St. Gregory of Nazianzum, A.D. 889 23 St. Basil and the converted Jew, A.D. 379 23 St. Gregory, Bishop of Tours, A.D. 595. How the Jewish Child was preserved unhurt in the fiery Furnace after receiving the Blessed Sacrament 24 The Devotion of St. Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia, to the Blessed Sacrament, A.D. 936 24 St. Gregory the Great during the Plague in Rome, A.D. 604 26 How the Holy Eucharist was changed into golden Ears of Wheat for the Conversion of a Heretic who was in good Faith, A.D. 612 27 St. Bernard and Duke William of Aquitaine, A.D. 1131 28 The Blessed Sacrament delivers a City out of the Hands of the Enemy, A.D. 1242 29 St. Clare delivers the City of Assisi by the Power of the Blessed Sacrament, A.D. 1253 32 Miracle in St. Saviour's Chapel at Ratisbon, A.D. 1255 33 The Institution of the Feast of Corpus Christi, A.D. 1260 35 St. Juliana of Cornillon, A.D. 1260 35 The Miracle of Bolsena, A.D. 1264 38 St. Thomas of Aquin and St. Bonaventura, A.D. 1264. The Office and Mass of Corpus Christi 39 Wonderful Death of a Priest and his Two Servers at Holy Mass, A.D. 1265 43 Origin of the Pilgrimage to the Church of the Holy Ghost at Slavinge in Moravia, A.D. 1280 44 Death of St. Mechtilde, A.D. 1297 45 The miraculous Hosts of Deggendorf, A.D. 1337 47 The miraculous Hosts at Brussels, A.D. 1370 49 St. Catharine of Siena, A.D. 1380 50 The blood-red Host at Seefeld, A.D. 1384 53 Miracle in the Chapel of the Gray Penitents at Avignon, A.D. 1433 54 St. Lidwina, A.D. 1433 55 St. Columba of Rieti, A.D. 1467 56 Three Miracles related by Thomas a Kempis in his Chronicles of the Convent of Mount St. Agnes, A.D. 1471 57 St. Joan of Valois, A.D. 1505 58 The Venerable Catharine of Jesus, A. D. 1510 59 St. Catharine of Genoa, A.D. 1510 60 St. Cajetan, A.D. 1547 62 The Origin of the Congregation of the Perpetual Adoration and the Exposition of the Forty Hours, A.D. 1547 63 St. Francis Xavier raises the Dead to Life and heals the Sick through the Power of the Blessed Sacrament, A.D. 1552 65 Devotion of St. Ignatius Loyola to the Sacrifice of the Mass, A.D. 1556 67 St. Peter of Alcantara, A.D. 1562 69 Glorious Victory of the Blessed Sacrament over Satan, A.D. 1566 71 St. Stanislas Kostka, A.D. 1568 77 Miraculous Deliverance of the Parish Priest of Moncada, in Spain, from Anguish of Spirit, A.D. 1570 79 The Nineteen Martyrs of Gorkum for the Honour of the Blessed Sacrament, A.D. 1572 80 St. Francis Borgia, A.D. 1572 83 St. Teresa, A.D. 1582 84 Punishment of a Maiden who received Holy Communion not fasting, A.D. 1584 87 St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, A.D. 1585 88 Brother Deo Gratias, St. Felix of Cantalice, A.D. 1587 89 Love for the Blessed Sacrament rewarded by a miraculous Conversion, A.D. 1590 93 The Catechism of Peter Canisius, A.D. 1590 95 St. John of the Cross, A.D. 1591 98 The Plague at Milan, A.D. 1575 101 St. Philip Neri, A.D. 1595 103 The Venerable Ursula Beninoasa, A.D. 1580 105 The Monstrance of Faverne, A.D. 1608 106 St. Francis Solano, A.D. 1610 107 St. Rose of Lima, A.D. 1617 108 Blessed John Berchmans, A.D. 1621 111 St. Francis db Sales 113 The Most Holy Sacrament in the Louvre at Paris, A.D. 1661 115 Blessed Joanna of the Cross, A.D. 1673 116 Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque, Religious of the Order of the Visitation, A.D. 1690 118 The Pestilence in Provence stayed by the Devotion to the Sacred Heart, A.D. 1720 123 Miraculous Cure of a Woman by Means of the Most Holy Sacrament, A.D. 1725 124 St. Leonard of Port Maurice, A.D. 1751 126 St. Joseph of Cupertino, A.D. 1767 129 Blessed Imelda Lambertina of Bologna 132 Blessed Anne Catharine Emmerich, A.D. 1774-1824 132 St. Paul of the Cross, A.D. 1775 135 Blessed Benedict Joseph Labre, A.D. 1783 137 St. Alphoneus Liguori, Founder of the Order of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, Doctor of the Church, A.D. 1787 140 St. Mary Francis of the Five Wounds, A.D. 1791 143 A Miracle of Healing at Creteil on the Seine, A.D. 1802 148 Mary Lataete, Lay-sister of the Order of the Sacred Heart, A.D. 1822-1847 149 The Venerable Anna Maria Taigi, A.D. 1837 155 Miraculous Conversion of a Jew by Means of the Most Holy Eucharist, A.D. 1862 158 Miraculous Appearance of our Lord in the consecrated Host, A.D. 1865 161 Another Appearance of our Lord in the consecrated Host, A.D. 1867 162 The pious Maiden Mary von Morl, usually known as the Estatica, A.D. 1868 162 Pius IX., A.D. 1848 165 Digitized by Google.

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